My Biggest Project in 2010 - SNO Artists Portrait Exhibition.

Was I think without a doubt my Solo Show SNAP at SNO in May this year. In a nutshell (my artist statement is below) SNAP was 40 large format Photographic Portraits of local and international artists taken at their openings over the previous four or so years. All the images were reprocessed from the original files for the show to make sure of the consistency of the prints which were done by the wonderful people at Photoking in Randwick.

The show (the first solo at SNO & show of objective work) was also aligned with the Head On Photo Festival and was very well attended. Thanks to everyone at SNO for their assistance with the exhibition & Billy Gruner for the title, Head On; and my parents for their much appreciated support. And of course thanks to everyone who made the trek to SNO for the exhibition, it would not have been such a wonderful time without everyone coming along.

I am not sure as to why it took me so long to blog about the show other than it has been a wonderfully busy year for my photography! I have put up a few shots from the show, the opening and some instillation shots below, all the Portraits from the exhibition can be seen HERE on Flickr.


Sophia Egarchos


Billy Gruner


Lars Breuer


John Adair


P.J. Hickman









Continuing the Artist portraits up to 2015 Here!

SNAP at SNO

Artist Statement

Every artist regardless of their experience has a sense of anticipation surrounding the opening of their exhibition. SNAP the portrait exhibition of artists taken at their openings at SNO reflects this instant, that moment when the artist is with their art, themselves and a photographer looking at both. The portraits which are 'set up' during the openings are typically made in about 60 seconds.

My the earliest shot in the show is the silhouette series of Ruark Lewis in conversation taken at the closing show for the space SNO occupied immediately before moving to the Marrickville Road space in February 2006. The first portraits at the new gallery space at 175 Marrickville Rd were of Jan van der Ploeg and Helen Smith SNO 15, April 1 2006 with the collaborative work 'Magic Black, Baby Blue, Baby Doll 2006'.

Over the past four plus years Kent has managed to photograph more than 40 Artists at their SNO openings. SNAP showcases the best-of-the best of the SNO Portraits.

From THE SNO website
Kent Johnson

SNAP

An exhibition of artist portraits taken at SNO openings since 2005. SNAP is a combined project with SNO and Australian Centre for Photography's Head On Photo Festival at galleries in and around Sydney.

SNO
Head On

Love & Luck, Gothic Fashion; Photographing Designer Handbags on Location.

My second of three photo shoots for Love & Luck. Here I photograph the Gothic inspired Skull & Bones range of handbags and accessories in an ancient cemetery on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean; with two beautiful models wearing black lace masks and matching gloves, the scene is set for a high-fashion drama!

Sydney has a lot of great locations to shoot at & I shot two well know locations for my first time working on the L&L campaigns. This location is of course that well known and much loved cemetery on Sydney's rugged coastline..

Photographed on location in Sydney by Kent Johnson. www.kentjohnsonphotography.com.au/

Models, Rochelle Fox and Michelle McNamee

H&MU, Emily Hayward

Assistant, Harry Perlich

BTS Video can be seen Here.

Lawless, Unauthorised - Love & Luck Photographers Edit.

I have to say I went a little (just a little) crazy on the Love & Luck shoot, particularly during the studio session. Although we were lighting the shoot with strobe it was impossible to ignore just how cool the daylight was that was falling all soft and diffused on the set. These are a few of the shots I cranked off with flash turned off! I did take the time to do a custom white balance, these pictures were all shot (the daylight shots) quite quickly.









Models,
Rochelle Fox
Michelle McNamee

H&MU,
Emily Hayward

Assistant,
Harry Perlich

View the whole fashion branding shoot here.

Love & Luck - Behind the Scenes...

OMG! Well you know the world as you know it has changed forever when just a couple of weeks after your first BTS video appears, (and you didn't notice they were making it) your very next BTS video is there for all the world to see. We have been shooting the first Love & Luck campaign which has gone very very well (shots coming next week) and as you do... L&L have shot this BTS Video entirely on their iPhone. Yep its a brave new world where all your little tricks of the trade will be revealed. I even go Strobist on this one, ha! So check the video out, check the action over our three shoots and, you can check out more L&L on their new blog Here.



L&L will have there spanking new website up next week too so I will be posting shots from the ranges along with the link so don't forget to pop back then.

And of course, thanks to everyone involved, what a great team!

Fashion Editorial Collabo w/- Shine By Three

Styling by Margaret Zhang.
Hair & MU by Maria Bravo
Model, Zoe S from Viviens

Margaret is running the Black and White version of the shoot over on her Shine By Three blog and has all the fashion details there too. And of course you can see Margaret & Katie's BTS video linked in on my previous post.

Thanks to everyone for working so well and putting together a great shoot.

Behind the Scenes with...

Shine by Three. I knew Margaret and Katie were shooting some BTS stills but a video! Great job and done and dusted inside 24 hours, what a team! Thanks guys :~)



Drums Tribal fashion shoot with Shine By Three here, and more on my website here...

Money, Thats What I Want...

Well I don't care what other people say, I think this 1979 version of "Money" is the best version ever! And... I think its contains a timely reminder that the "New Paradigm" of "Everything is free (on the net)" and well, everything-is-free is not a particularly sustainable concept.

"Your love gives me such a thrill, but your love won't pay my bills. I want MONEY..."



I have done a couple of blog posts on the pitfalls of "free" or no-budget in photography here, How to produce a good lookbook and here, what it takes to produce a good modelling portfolio; for anyone interested in such things.

In a nutshell it takes skill, talent, time and well you know... Money !~)


Oh and the original Flying Lizards clip is here. Yeah, Fun, Creativity and ... thats what I want.

Male Modelling Portfolio, In the Studio...

For Matt's professional male modelling portfolio. A great afternoon of shooting. Grooming by Kaori.

















Click here for more Male Modelling Portfolio shoots.
Thanks to everyone for a great shoot.


More

Bridal Fashion, Catherine Colubriale Couture.

Photography, Kent Johnson
Assitant, Ken Chang
Model, Sophie S
H&MU, Lema Abdalla
Bridal Gowns & Styling, Catherine Colubriale.

I thought it time to shoot some more High Fashion, thanks to Catherine and the team for helping make this shoot happen. All Catherine's gowns are one-off Couture creations, Bridal, Balls or perhaps just that very special big night out! Click the pictures to VIEW LARGE.

Portraits and Fashion Photography Sydney!

I have just spent most of today making a few changes and upgrades to my web site. The first was to put all the portraits I have been taking against the fibro wall into the portrait section of the site all on their own page. So now with these shots of Paul I have 10 portraits in the wall series Here.





Its great to have somewhere very close at hand that allows me to make a series of portraits like these; many more yet to come.

I also managed to get up a page of the New Beauty Photography shot at the studio in Balmain.


And although its been blogged in full here, In The night A Lonely Hunter can now be seen as a horizontal scrolling story. I think the left to right format almost always looks better.



Click the links to view the new pages. Cheers, Kent.

Hanna T.

Late afternoon in the garden. Head and Mid shots for Hanna's modelling portfolio.

Claudia - Location Portrait in B&W

Well I promised more shots from this wall.

Male Models, Impromptu Location Shoot

Impromptu because Brent (grey tee) and Josh (black coat) turned up with Manon last week, Friends/Entourage/Posse; well they gave her a lift and wanted to hang around for a bit and I guess see what happens on a shoot. Well as a rule we don't let people that aren't working on the shoot hang around but the minute I saw these guys I though wow! I just have to shoot them.


I don't normally use props either but I knew the big horse hip bone was going to be the perfect prop to loosen things up. Brent has a great editorial Look while Josh went straight to Commercial! Lots of fun mucking about (serious fun mind you) while Manon was in H&MU. And I just love this wall in this light, we are going to see a lot more shots taken there.


I hope you like the shots, I think they are vibing a bit of Bruce Webber! Cool, thanks guys.


Click here for more Male Modelling Portfolio shoots.